Career guidance services at university level are crucial to facilitate the transition of students from studies to the labour market and career counsellors are the cornerstone of these services. For this purpose, RisiAlbania has a focus on capacity building of career counsellors, hand in hand with the development of the content and tools.

Following work to establish career services at university level, in this phase the project RisiAlbania has entered cooperation with two important universities in Albania in regard to their outreach and their relation to the labour market, which have undertaken concrete steps towards development of career services: University of Tirana and Polytechnic University of Tirana to scale the career services and reach more students.

For this purpose during the month of June has started the training of career counsellors of these two institutions. During two weeks, the staff of the career offices dive deep into the profession of career counselor through practical work and are equipped with knowledge and instruments that can be applied during their work with students.

Building capacities of career counsellors is only the first step in developing effective career services for the students of these universities.